Tool for electric-lamp sockets.



APPLICATION FILED MAY 28,1908.

Patented Dec. 8

INVENTOF ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. h GILBERT w. oonmnea, orBRIDGEBORT, CONNECTICUT, ks'sienoa 'ro THE BRYANr ELEC- T'RIC COMPANY,or BRIDGEIOBT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION or CONNECTICUT.

TOOL FOR ELECTRIC-LAM? BOCETS.

Specification 0! Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 8, 1908.

To all whom it may concem: 1

Be it known that I, GILBERT W. GOOD- mnen, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, and a resident of the city of Bridgeort, in thecounty of Fairfield, in the State of onnecticuahave invented a certainnew and useful 1m roved Tool for Electric Lamp Sockets, 0 which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention consists of an improved tool for use in fitting electriclamp sockets in place upon fixtures or other sup orts, the tool beingmore especially use 1 where sockets are to be introduced withinornamental fittings or husks.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation showing thetool about to have its operating head introduced into a cap 0; Fig. 2 1sa corresponding view showing the tool in lace; Fig. 3 is an end view ofthe tool head; ig. 4 is a sectional view of the tool car g a socketshell.

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the tool.

tool comprises a head A and handle A with cross-piece a, and a hole a)is formed through the tool head and handle for a purpose explainedhereinafter.

The head of the tool is preferably made of the circular outline shown tofit the interior of the flanged part of a socket cap, and a number oflateral projections 19, p, are formed on the tool head to engageopenings or recesses in the flange of the socket ca In the presentinstance I have shown t e tool as especially constructed for use inconnection with the electric lamp socket formin the subject of my PatentNo. 872,283, dated November 26th, 1907, and which the flange of the capis uniformly wrinkled or corrugated, and accordingly the periphery ofthe tool head is formed with projections p spaced to correspond with anfit into the recesses formed by the corrugations c in the flan e of thecap C. I

V hen the tool head is inserted in the cap, the two are locked togetherrotarily, so that the wire man'can readily insert the cap into thebottom of an ornamental husk and screw it up on the threaded pipe end bymeans of The wires projectin from the pipe end may be received into theole a, formed hea in the head and handle of the tool, and thereforetwisting of the wires will be avoided in screwin up the ca I pre or toform th than the flange of the cap and to form marks m on this rearextension in line with the projections p, in order that when the wiremanis giving the last turn to the ca on the pipe he may stop with one ofthese ines n 0 pcsite the center line of the slot left in the usk forthe reception of the ke of the socket. Then in putting the socket s elland contents into the cap, the wireman will know that the key will be inline, as it should be, with one of the corrugations c in the cap, andthe socket will pass that much more directly and easily into the cap,and the latching means will at once snap into engagement. I recess outthe front en of the tool head, as indicated at a in Fi 4 to receive theouter end of the shell S an the projectin end of the insulating linings, when the bee s of the shell comes to rest on the annular shoulder orflange y thus formed in the end of the tool so that the thrust needed toush the shell into the cap after the latter as been screwed onto the i 6within a husk ma thus be taken by the s e S, instead of by tile end ofthe lining, as would be a t to be the case if the shell were put in byand. Pressure applied to the front end of the lining will mar itsappearance and will also force the lining to project at the back of theshell and interfere with the fitting of the shell into the cap.

I claim as my invention 1. A tool for electric lamp sockets, comprisinga handle and a head with a hole through the head for the wires, the heade head of the tool deeper adapted to fit into a socket cap and havingparts to en age the ca rotarily.

2. A tool for electric lamp sockets, comprising a handle and a circularhead to fit,

within and rotarily engage the flange of a socket cap, and also recessedout at its front end to receive the outer end of a socket shell a I 1 a906,408

the head bein adapted to fit within the In testimony whereof I havesigned my socket cap an having, parts to engage rename to thisspecification, in the presence of cesses or notches in the ca twosubscribing witnesses.

4. A tool for an electric lamp socket, com- GILBERT W. GOODRIDGE tiprising a handle and a circular head exter- Witnesses: t

nally corrugated to fit within the corrugated A. H. JoNEs, flange of asocket cap. H. W. Gowsnonouen.

